The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-12-31
A GOOD RICH MAN.

kind, The ideal condition would be
to So order society that there shal be
neither great riches or great poverty,
but this condition is not to be obtained
while human nature reinain unequal,
while one is sober, prudent and frugal,
and another drunken, e ess or I'M
provident. Even we're all Fictitious
aids TO great wealth removed. which
they ought to he, still, the brairhest'
the pluckiest and the most abstemious
would outstrip their fellows, who are
dull, timid and self-imdulgent, and they
ought.
Passing all this by it is a great thing
for Il wealthy man to do good with his
II is not money is the root OF
all evil but Tho love OF money is the
root of all evil" The man who loves
his kind more than his money is i'll no
danger from the possession of wealth.
To this class belongs Gen. Alger, a
millionaire citizen of Detroit.
A year ago OH the advent Of the new
year he gave suits Of clothes TO hVe
hundred newsboys and sen coal or
wood or flour TO hundreds OF homes.
This veal he will repeat his gilt, only
Oh a larger scale. From lists furnished
his secretary by persons who have
means of knowing who are he leSltl-
mate and deserving newsboys OF De-
troit, the needy ones will be selected
and sent one hundred at 4 time to GER
tain clothing stores where they Will be
carefully fitted nj with coats and pam
falcons of stout cloth, made to wear,
and with good shirts and stockings
The second part Of Gen. Ayers bene-
faction will be to supply to 1000 iami-
lies in Detroit a cord of wood or a ton
of coal each, together with a barrel OF
flour.
In the list Of the families 10 be aided
appear brief notes Of the causes which
entitlc them to the help extended. In
these memoranda are epitomlZed many
a story Of misfortune, suffering and
wrong. There are poor widows with
from three to nine dependent little
children, a family where the father and
husband is insane, another where he is
a decrepit old soldier, almost blind and
entirely incapable of work. Another
is in the soldiers home. while his wife
struggles heroically to support the
wants Of eight children. a deserted
wife with five small children, the wife
deformed, yet struggling against the
cruel decree Of fate.
And so it goes, showing the terrible
miseries of extreme poverty.
Gen. Alger will reap his reward both
here and hereafter.
The st, Louis Globe Democrat reads
lis party associates a wholesome lesson
in the following paragraph:-"The
American protectionist journals which
hail every alleged evidence of a growth
In fair trade sentiment in England AS
argument in favor of the tariff in
the United States stand III their own
light. There is no good reason TO be-
lieye that, on the whole, the devotion
TO free trade in Great Britain is less
powerful now than it was three, ten or
twenty-five years ago. Even were the
fact otherwise, however, it would have
especial economic Importance for
Americans. Strictly speaking, protec-
ton, in the sense here understood, is
a principle, but an expedient. 1t
is not a fundamental truth which ia
and everywhere applicable, but
a method or device to accomplish a
desirable end. The question of
protection or free trade is one which |
each country must settle for itself,
by the knowledge OF its own
resources aud the industrial
aptitude and skill OF its people. ! pro-
tariff such as Peel and his fol- |
overthrow would be as econom-
icaiiy injurious to England to-day as
free trade woalG be to the United
States.' Now, as it is exactly "tair
that the democrats propose fol:
The United States and not ''free trade"
The Inconsistency is apparent OF those
republican journals winch applaud
fair trade" arguments i'll England but
condemn them in this country, simply
and alone because they DO not bear
their party label.
Even in Massachusetts the world do !
move. At Boston, Thursday, a meet
.ng and banquet of the Massachusetts
'eform league, at the Brunswick hotel,
was highly successful, the arrange
nents being carried out Oh 3 most
elaborate scale. There was present a
arge number Of prominent politicians
Ind government officials, both from
Massachusetts and elsewhere, among
he number being Hon. JAS. Russell
Lowell, Gen. John NJ. Corso, Hon.
A. Collins, Congressman w.
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, W. L.
wilson, of West Virginia, and Senator
J. I. Morgan, CT Alabama. Before )
the guests anu members began
G arrive, and at 5:45 a meeting CT the
was held. Resolutions endors-
ng the message OF President Cleveland
we're adopted. Officers were then
after which the party proceed
"a to the banquet hall. 1t was near 10
When ths gentlemen, TO the
lumber of 322, were seated in the ban
luet hail, aud Rev. Jas. Freei4a.
lark, ID. d. Invoked the divine blessing.
a',er the banquet Hon. Jas. Russell
lowell called the meeting to order.
JUDGE BARCLAY.
As we have had u pleasant WORT TO
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